Former MACHINE HEAD and present VIO-LENCE guitarist Phil Demmel has joined pressured with ex-ADRENALINE MOB guitarist Mike Orlando, ARMORED SAINT/ex-ANTHRAX singer John Bush, OVERKILL/SHADOWS FALL drummer Jason Bittner and EXODUS bassist Jack Gibson in an as-yet-unnamed new undertaking which is at present engaged on materials for its debut album.

Demmel spoke concerning the new band in an interview with former EXHORDER and PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS guitarist Marzi Montazeri. Concerning how the musicians first got here collectively, Demmel stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I [was] doing a one-off [show], [filling in as the guitar player for] OVERKILL, and that is excellent after issues are opening up. It is in Jersey, so we go as much as Dingbatz, or what’s… there’s the bar after which there’s the venue. So regardless of the bar is, we go to the bar. And Orlando comes and meets us, and it is Corey Pierce from GOD FORBID. And so we’re there all getting loaded. And at a sure level, it was simply, like, ‘Man, we obtained the band proper right here, man. Why do not we do one thing? Why do not we write music collectively?’ And we’re all, ‘Yeah, let’s do.’ After which the following day, we’re type of hung over, going, ‘Hey, man, did we imply it? Did we imply that? Yeah, let’s have a look at can occur.’ And I got here again [to the East Coast]. I neglect what I used to be doing once I got here again. And me and Orlando obtained collectively and we simply obtained within the room and began throwing riffs at one another and got here up with, like, a dozen or so riffs that he took again. And you understand Mikey O — he is obtained his personal studio, and he will get behind one thing. And he is obtained such an important ear. He is an exceptional guitar participant. And he is obtained an important ear for music and melody. So he begins placing the shit collectively. And we’re, like, Rattling, that is fucking cool.’ … After which so we’re pondering, it is, like, all proper, nicely, bass participant and vocalists. Vocalists, who would you guys need? Let’s make our checklist. Begin on the high.’ After which bang, bang, bang. All on the high was ‘John Bush‘, ‘John Bush‘, ‘John Bush‘. We’re, like, ‘Hmm.’ I stated I do know him from [playing together in] METAL ALLEGIANCE. We broed down just a little bit — we talked sports activities and stuff — so I stated, I do know him sufficient to name him up and ask him. So I did. And he was tremendous… We had been within the good friend zone for some time — you understand, non-committal. And it has been little by little by bit.”

In line with Demmel, the brand new undertaking has “written about 10 tunes” and John has laid down vocals “to seven of ’em. And it is is tremendous thrilling, man,” he stated.

Phil went on to explain the brand new band’s musical course as “heavier than the early VAN HALEN and the early PANTERA stuff that is on the — you understand, the shuffle beat. It is on the upbeat; a variety of it is on the upbeat, not on the down. So it is the head-bobbing kind of kind of BPMs, you understand? So it is totally different. No person’s actually doing that now.”

Orlando was the guitarist/founding member of the arduous rock group ADRENALINE MOB. As proprietor of his personal recording studio, Sonic Stomp Studios, he handles every little thing from engineering, producing, mixing and mastering.

Demmel left MACHINE HEAD on the finish of the band’s fall 2018 North American tour. He was in MACHINE HEAD for practically 16 years, throughout which era he performed on 5 of the group’s studio albums: “By way of The Ashes Of Empires” (2003),“The Blackening” (2007),“Unto The Locust” (2011),“Bloodstone & Diamonds” (2014) and “Catharsis” (2018).

Broadly often known as the drummer from American metallic band SHADOWS FALL, Bittner has received quite a few awards, together with Trendy Drummer journal’s No. 1 Metallic Drummer in 2005 and 2006, No. 1 Up-And-Coming Drummer in 2004 and 2005, and No. 2 Clinician for DRUM! journal in 2011. In 2014, Bittner connected with the thrash metallic band FLOTSAM AND JETSAM and has since joined OVERKILL.

Bush continues to report and tour with ARMORED SAINT, which he co-founded in 1982.

John fronted ANTHRAX between 1992 and 2005 however was sidelined when the group reunited with Joey Belladonna for a Twentieth-anniversary tour. When that collapsed, and relationships disintegrated with subsequent frontman Dan Nelson, Bush returned for a time earlier than Belladonna took the job again in 2010.

In 1996, eight albums into EXODUS‘s profession, Gibson joined the band and has remained with the group ever since. Along with his work EXODUS, he has fathered a bluegrass brainchild, COFFIN HUNTER, a band that mixes Gibson‘s love for Nashville music and for enjoying banjo, giving off a vibe of true Americana like a mixture of C.W. McCall, Jerry Reed and Sergio Leone.